Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-07-28
oHAUTAUQUA, n. Y.
Jnlr o. 1851.


Whoever would see the Chaptauqua Lake
region at its height, must be on the ground
within the next two weeks, and remain at
lest four weeks longer, to see and hear, and
make observations.
Though the Assembly is the centre of all
attraction, yet il is worth while to visit Lake
View, Point Chantauqua, Mayville, James
town, and some other localities of interest.
Weekly excursion parties to Niagara Falls at
cheap rates will soon become the order of the
day, and the indulgence in this privilegeis is al
most part of the Chautauqua program-it
is certainly part of the peoples program.
az shall attend the Assembly later in the
season. as the exercises will then be more in
terestine,"i is a remark often made, but it is
a misapprehension.
Drs. j. NJ. Buckley, Pierce and c. ]. Little
have already delivered their courses of lecture
and gone, and il would be hazardous to
promise anything more interesting than they
have already given us. Such as were able at
the beginning to enter Prof. Ellis chorus
choir consider themselves as highly favored,
and it is not too late yet to received valuable
help from the pains taking and superior in
structions he gives.
The program of exercises sent out last
week, have been carried into effect to the let
ter. Prof. Sprague's lecture on the youth of
Shakspere, contained all that is known on
that subject, and his youth was closely con-
nected with the power and brilliancy of his
mature years. The Shakspere readings of
Prof. George Riddle have been greatly ap-
preciated Sby large audiences.
DR.. Neely's lectures to the tourist on Paris,
Provincial France and the Rhine country,
have been crammed full of instruction and
delivered in the most fascinating manner.
Lectures, concerts, readings and all other
exercises at Chautauqua we're never better
attended than this year. Indeed there were
never so many people at Chautauqua SO early
in the season. The weather for few days, a
little too warm for our comfort, has had
tendency to drive the people from the
cities, and this elevated airy region has well
coined them to all its advantages.
Chautauqua, has no privileges it does not
now extend to the country. The crowds have
been slow to appreciate the value of our
health-restoring mineral fountains; the rea-
son, perhaps, is that people are to much ta-
ken up with the multitude of other things.
The large feet Of skiffs and sail boats are
adequate to the wants of the place; and
Chautauqua presents no more picturesque
and pleasing sight than at evening as the sun
is going down, casting the shadows of tree
tops far out upon the lake, hundred boats,
more or less, filled with all classes, especial
ly young people and children, may be seen
careering about in all directions. When they
take to singing, as is often the case, the mu-
sic of the human voice never sounds more
sweet then when waited over the lake. Ten
mis- courts are largely patronized, especially
in the after part of the day. For some rea-
son which our metaphysicians and philoso-
pliers have not explained, the elderly people
resort for recreation to the croquet grounds.
But it is not all play at Chautauqua. The
hard work done in the class and lecture
rooms was never more abundant than this
season. Prof. Davis class in psychology is
constantly growing, and the lectures display
wide range of reading and thought on that
and cognate subjects. In physics and chem
istry, Dr.. Edwards and his assistants, Profs.
Longden and German, are having a very
interesting time revealing and unfolding the
constitution of matter and the secrets of
nature. These are studies which but very
few have learned to appreciate. Neither in
its sphere, and for the purposes of its ex-
istence, is as perfect as seraphs. As a rart of
Gods creation to despise it is kind of bias
phemy or ignorance.